Chapter 461 Infernal Incinerator (2/2)

Five minutes earlier, a group of masked individuals in form-fitting black clothes had stood quietly in the middle of the forest, at times looking to the east as if waiting for something.

”Has he arrived?”

”Any time now...”

”Boss, I don't think we're going to win this fight,” said someone at the back of the group, stammering.

”Hm?” Their leader turned around, coldly gazing at his teammate.

”He has a King-tier familiar. I've read his profile. We might stand a chance against a high-level Lord-tier familiar together, but King-tier is a completely different realm from Lord-tier. This is a suicide mission,” explained his teammate, his head slightly inclined and his legs together.

The group leader's face stiffened, then relaxed. ”Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to,” he said casually.

Suddenly, someone reported, ”I've just received word that he doesn't have his King-tier familiar with him.”

The group leader stared at him wordlessly. ”He doesn't have his King-tier familiar with him?”

”That's great news!”

”What a fool! Why would he come here without his greatest weapon? He may be the world's first King-tier trainer to be killed! Hahaha!”

The forest was filled with the sound of laughter and general merrymaking at that moment. Suddenly, there was a crack of thunder in the sky. The group of people in the forest fell silent as they warily eyed the approaching Da Zi in the air.

”What kind of familiar is that? There was no mention of it in his profile...”

”Looks mean.”

”Quiet!” hissed the group leader. Silence fell over the forest once more.

Up ahead, a milu deer with huge antlers looked up. Its antlers were spreading a soft and warm glow over the entire forest. Da Zi drew closer and closer until it stopped just above the forest.

The group leader waved a hand. A black slender human shape stepped forward at his signal. The human-like monster's body was dappled with sunlight passing through the leaves above it. It looked up at the sky, its face horribly disfigured and its eyes filled with despair and anguish.

My name is Anderson, but these people prefer calling me the Infernal Incinerator.

I was once a knight from the Middle Ages. As a child, I was put through the most rigorous training, all so that I could carry out my knightly mission to protect the princess.

The princess was the most beautiful girl I've ever laid eyes on, as pretty as a camellia flower. How was it possible that such a beautiful thing ever existed in the first place? I loved her from the bottom of my heart.

I had sworn that I would protect her for the rest of my life. Then, our enemies invaded the castle. In the midst of the chaos, I was able to find the princess. I wanted to run away with her from that place so that I could continue keeping her safe.

She told me that she was the country's princess and that she couldn't just disappear in her country's hour of need. Our enemies soon found us. I desperately tried to protect the princess, but I was vastly outnumbered. I begged them to spare the princess. She had never seen so much bloodshed. She had nothing to do with whatever was going on.

They said that if I could survive being burned alive for half a minute, they would spare the princess. A bonfire was readied, and I stepped into the fire. The flames mercilessly scorched my body. Pain raked through my very being. Half a minute passed. I dragged my body out of the fire, and I saw those b*stards kill the princess right in front of me.

Then I was thrown back into the fire. The last sound that I heard in my final moments was their jeering. Now, the only things driving my body are hatred, anger, despair, and vengeance!

Whooosh— Flames fanned out from the bottom of the human-like creature. Everything in the fire's path was instantly burnt to a crisp.

”Infernal Incinerator, kill that thing!” roared the leader of the group.